DELYSIAN COLOUR SYSTEM: PARTS 1 & 2
Aesthetic Narrative + Colour Perspective, Placement and Purpose courses bundle
With Fiona de Lys
Delysian Colour System
Part 1: Aesthetic Narrative.
Part 2: Colour Perspective, Placement and Purpose.
Duration
Part 1: 6 hours; 10.30am – 4.30pm
Part 2: 6 hours; 10.30am – 4.30pm
Part 1 dates
Saturday 17 Jan 2026
Saturday 21 Feb 2026
Saturday 28 Mar 2026
Part 2 dates
Saturday 31 Jan 2026
Saturday 7 Mar 2026
Saturday 11 Apr 2026
Location
Lantern Cottage, 11 Dury Road, Barnet, London EN5 5PU
Price (inc. 20% OFF part 2)
£537.00*
*Refreshments, lunch, all workshop materials, and a gift bag, are included in your ticket price.
Join me at Lantern Cottage to discover your own aesthetic narrative and learn the Delysian Colour System, my signature working method
This part 1 and part 2 workshop bundle (with a 20% discount on part 2) is for anyone who wants to invest in using my Delysian Colour System for their work, or their own pleasure.
Taught at my North London home, Lantern Cottage, these two workshops begin with DCS part 1 Aesthetic Narrative which will help you map the foundations of a colour scheme for any interior space. You’ll apply my signature method of exploring dynamic and subjective influences to deliver colours that feel like you.
Discover how to connect with your personal palette as I talk you through the process with real-life examples, and give you a step-by-step guide as we build your first aesthetic narrative map. This is an extremely valuable tool for establishing meaningful and unique colour spaces, and it can help direct your interior colour design process with clients.
When you return for your second workshop, Colour Perspective, Placement and Purpose, with your aesthetic narrative map, you’ll learn how to bend colour to create harmonious and interesting combinations that enable you to think about the bigger picture — how to move colour across rooms, aspects and surfaces.
By the end of both workshops, you’ll have substantially extended your understanding of colour, and learned how to layer colour for any interior style; you’ll take away colour handling skills that will, ultimately, enhance your professional service to your clients.
What you’ll learn in the DCS part 1 and part 2 workshops
In part 1, you’ll gain an insight into the role of perception, and how psychology and emotion can influence your interaction with an interior space.
Your colour choices are explored to echo ‘felt-life’ experiences and this process will help develop the map for your aesthetic narrative and colour scheme, as you begin to understand the role of companion colours and accents for styling and material considerations.
In part 2, you’ll learn the true nature of shadow and highlight, as created by the interplay of light, colour and form. Then, as you gain an understanding of how to bend warm and cool hues, you’ll see that the placement of colour can enhance a room’s colour scheme, and help it connect with other rooms and surfaces.
To conclude part 2, you’ll evolve your final colour scheme in the studio, with the help of designer fabrics, paint colours, and textural references. This will create a layered and more sophisticated version of the aesthetic narrative you built in part 1.
Who is this course bundle for?
The bundle package is deal for anyone who wants to invest in learning the two core parts of the Delysian Colour System, with a view to expanding and progressing their professional services.
The bundle is particularly useful for interior designers, colour consultants, or those with client-colour relationships, looking to provide a service that they can personalise and expand.
My DCS provides a foundation for an holistic exploration of the personal meaning of colour, the psychology of colour, and it’s application within a scheme, and gives you tools for further professional development.
Both workshops include their own unique De Lys study materials: worksheets, a diary for colour thoughts and reflections (a much encouraged process in part 1), and developmental maps for the aesthetic narrative and colour combination work.
My garden studio (a former Victorian wash-house) is an inspiring cosy space, equipped with designer and vintage fabrics, wallpaper samples, colour chips, colour charts, reference books and magazines. Each guest has their own tall desk area with phone holder, and enough light as needed for the practical parts of the workshop.
All attendees have access to Colour Companions, an exclusive online network group, held once a month. It’s somewhere to meet, share ideas and colour schemes, and to chat about the techniques that enhance communication with clients, and amongst peers.
“I was especially fascinated by Fiona’s approach to reading light and how she uses highlight and shadow to craft colour schemes that transition beautifully between spaces…I left feeling like my soul had been quietly nourished. A reminder of the deep, emotional resonance colour can carry.”
Sara Copsey Interiors
Booking & payment
Booking and payment happens in two parts: first, you must fill in and submit the booking form below, specifying which date you would like for each course; then you can pay using the payment form below the booking form.
You can email me with any questions or call me on +44 (0)7443 429 614.